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we have must see information to help insure your four-legged friend won't become a statistic. first, privacy versus convenien convenience, the choice you need to make now if you want to take part in the future. >> if you could choose not to give us this information but if you give it to us we can do a better job of making better services for you. >> not everyone who is watching you in the digital age has your best interests at heart. how can you protect yourself. christine romans has answers. "your money" starts right now. big brother is watching you, and so are chinese hackers, identity thieves and tech hackers. technology is moving forward but security is sometimes left behind. in the rush to create gadgets, manufacturers are leaving security holes hackers can use to attack you and your families. then there are the companies you trust your data to. you don't pay for facebook or g
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mail but those companies are sailing something, selling you. they scan your profile for ads and the more they know about you the more they pay. consumer groups were outraged after google filed a legal motion this summer and in it they referenced a 1979 supreme court ruling that said a person has no legitimate expectation of privacy in information he voluntarily turns over to third parties. google's chairman told me the company is just trying to help you. >> you can choose not to give us this information but if you give it to us we can do a better job of making better services for you. >> google and facebook want your personal information to target content and ads for you. so why is the u.s. government looking over your shoulder. >> america is not interested in spying on ordinary people. our intelligence is focused on above all finding the information necessary to protect our people and in many cases protect our allies.
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>> rod is the former director of the national cyber security center. is the message here we shouldn't put anything sensitive in e-mail or online, there is no expectation for privacy in what we do in a very technology driven world? >> sure. anything you put online is definitely at risk. i'll say that. you can make some choices better than others to try protect your privacy. if you're e-mailing online you are taking a risk that could be disclosed. >> we've all done it, gone through pages and pages of conditions for new software and click accept. that's what happened in this episode. >> what are you going to do to us? >> everything you agreed to in the itunes conditions. >> we didn't read them. >> right. who just agrees to something they don't read. we get the point. a rt of people do that. we know a lot of people do every time facebook or google changes
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its service. so far there's not a mass user revolt. what would it take for users to push us over the edge. they do it for convenience and don't have a lot of other choices. >> sure. i'm not sure it will push it over the edge. three classes of people, those that don't know what a's going and those not comfortable and there is a growing minority concerned about what they sense is a violation of their privacy. >> every story this week went back to the privacy concern for americans. we turn around, buy new gadgets, use new service, download new music. we don't see -- we worry about privacy but continue to go about our daily business. i guess what we're hoping is that the companies, and government and companies and anybody has our information has our best interests at heart. >> sure, the power of these devices is just explodi exploding exponentially and data massing
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is huge and companies can intercept it as well. it's an a grow iing thing and w have to look at it as consumers trying to make better choices. it's not easy. >> this is what the google statement was for us. we take our users' privacy and security very seriously. recent reports claiming otherwise are simply untrue. we have built industry leading security and privacy features into g mail and no matter who sends us an e-mail to a g mail user those protections apply. do you think the google was overstated this week? >> you know, people need to understand what they're doing and make their own decisions. for some people it is a problem and don't feel comfortable with that and some people feel comfortable sharing everything. depends on the perspective. >> there's always that phrase, something is free, you should
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know someone is trying to make money. a business model. show nice to meet you. thank you so much. >> thank you. if our online e-mails are being tracked, they're at risk of being hacked, no surprise. what if what's going on in the privacy of your own home is vulnerable. laurie segall. >> that's right. it almost reads like a movie script. a hacker taps into a wifi network and monitors a baby monitor. it happened this week in texas. are you freaked-out? not only that but your home could be hacked into if you're not careful. >> imagine your 2-year-old daughter sleeping and and outsider watching her through the baby monitor. that's what happened to a family in texas this weekend. they discovered the problem when they heard a man yelling at their toddler reading her name off their bedroom wall. >> he said wake-up alison you little [ bleep ] >> the gilberts said their
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device was hacked. >> it felt like someone broke into our house. >> someone did. as automation becomes more popular there are more and more ways to hack your house and many more devices vulnerable. >> i can tell the light please unlock the door. >> that's a hacker literally unlocking your door. the smart device is connected to a device that allows you to control the appliances from your home. daniel crowley found a flaw in that device. >> i run code and compromise it, set up a back door or i can control any device hooked up to it. >> in a world full of these teaches of devices that let you do everything from flush your toilet to turn on your lights through smartphone, a hacker can make your house feel haunted. >> basically, i can open up any of these rooms configured or associated with this device and control them, either turning them on or turning them off. >> sound like something casper would do? these security researchers found
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an issue with the hub that allowed them to take control of it and similarly in this children's toy with a camera that synced with an app on a parents' mobile device designed for keeping an eye on your kids. someone else could, too. >> that traffic, i was able to capture and then pull from it a url, which was the direct video feed. as long as the access coken was still valid, hasn't been expired yet, i could watch that video feed indefinitely. >> insteon fixed the issue verified by 37ers. it requires an insecure wifi connections. they say the majority of their users have security internet connections. the makers of the bear and toy maker did not immediately respond for comment. always put a strong password on your internet connection. keep your software up to date and never click on links from
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stranger strangers. >> when it comes down to it to the baby monitor, had they updated their software, this wouldn't have been an issue. take a step back, how many times do luke at a baby monitor and say, i have to update the software in my baby monitor, a whole new reality we're beginning to face. >> strong pass words and internet connection. >> we all know steve jobs was a brilliant tech entrepreneur. did you know the man playing him on the screen? no dummy himself. >> the sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smar smart. >> you're not getting punked. more on the business of ashton kutcher next.
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billionaire activist investor carl icahn has never been shy and now discovered twitter. we currently have a large position in apple. we believe the company to be extremely undervalued. spoke to tim cook today. more to come. that's a $1.5 million investment. apple stocks soared this week in the wake of the tweet heard in the investment world apple shares trading above $500 for the first time in a very long time. the stock has been climbing back from a low of $390 a share in april, still off the highs. investors worrying the company isn't innovating the way it used to under legendary steve jobs who passed away nearly two years
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ago. larry ellison called steve jobs irreplaceabl irreplaceable. >> we will not be nearly so successful because he's gone. he was brilliant, our edison, our picasso. >> picasso's gain value is at an age apple's losing market share to doingle's android, google's operating system that runs on sam suction, tdtv and their motorola. it's cheaper than iphone and am is losing out on a huge customer base, thus the buzz on a possible low cost base that should be out september. apple is poised for a comeback but the grandfather to the iphone isn't. remember these? just five years ago, blackberry had more than half of the smartphone market. today, 2%, lagging way behind its rivals. it's designed to appeal to consumers but so far it hasn't
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caught on the way the company hoped. now, blackberry says it may be put up for sale. what will it be selling? loyal user base, reputation for security and patents, could be worth $1 billion by themselves. apple changes our lives ourselves and everyone is wondering about the movie of steve jobs. what about the actor playing steve jobs? the business of being ashton kutcher. >> i'd like to introduce you to the ipod. >> ashton kutcher's latest job, portraying steve jobs on the big screen. he's a hero of mine. i admire him. >> playing the role of a brilliant tech entrepreneur is hardly acting. kutcher is a very involved very successful tech investor. he studied biochemical engineering at the university of iowa, but biology of a different sort led him to drop out leaving the lab for the runway. fame soon followed. >> what about mine? >> dude!
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>> despite prominent roles as good looking but dimwitted in dude, where's my car and fat '70s show, kutcher is no dummy when it comes to start-ups. he recognized the value of twitter early and kutcher beat cnn and became the first twitter user to get 1 million followers. today, he pushes his investments to more than 14 million followers. kutcher was part of a group of early investors in skype, an internet calling service. back then it was valued at $2.75 billion. two years later, microsoft bought skype for more than triple that. now, kutcher backs some of the most buzzed about venture, four square, flip board, path and more and invests through his own venture capital fund, air grade and the onscreen air head is laughing all the way to the bank. the highest paid actor in television. raking in an estimated $24 million last year for his work
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on ""two and a half men"" not to mention top dollar endorsements like his deal from nikon. from hollywood hottie to silicon valley superstar and now the lead role playing the iconic steve jobs, the business of being ashton kutcher is -- oh, yeah! >> they say everything is bigger in texas. when it comes to money sports team, it's true. here has the score. >> details cowboys the most valuable team according to forbes. worth $2.3 billion thanks in part to a 25.5$25.500 million d it struck with at&t in july for the naming rights to its stadium. the new england patriots the most seconds valuable at $1.8 billion followed by washington redskins, new york giants and texans. the university of texas rakes in the most cash for its merchandise according to the
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a summer swoon. this week, we saw back to back days of triple digit loss in stocks. what's troubling them? we're getting closer to september when many think the fed will begin the so-called fed taper slimming down bond buying purchases. last week, jobless claims fell
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the lowest since july 2007, and gives it room to taper and you have slower consumer spending and add to that news from cisco, the number 1 internet router businesses saw, all of this hitting confidence at a time markets are big for the year. my friend and anchor of "world business today" on cnn international. mohammad, i want to start with you. this bond pullback. bond yields at two year highs. what should investors make base this notion that the federal reserve is able to support the markets and, second, on the
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notion no matter how sluggish the economic conditions are companies can continue to be very profitable. last week, we got warning signs on both. on the first one, the fed continues to signal it will taper its support and take its foot off the accelerator not just because the economy is healing but because it's worried about the consequences, the collateral damage of its experimental policy but we got two very important policies out of cisco and walmart and the corporate sector is starting to have a more difficult time. people should be more comfort because there's a lot of uncertainty in september. >> be careful. is there a big reset in expectations happening now as we get closer? especially jobless claims, lowest since 2007. that shows health in the labor market. when things look really good in the labor market we'll be able
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to stop supporting the economy so much. >> that should be a good thing. we should feel good about the fact we don't need to be on life support. i think people are concerned how things bill go with the fed because we are in unprecedented territory. we've never seen this. people are sitting on very big profit gains. if you're a money manager, you want to lock into those gains and don't want to turn to a client and say, we lost money. that's what i heard from a trader, people are closing those positions they have. this is not a new wave of ser l serials coming into the market and people saying i will book that so i have it at the end of the year. >> i heard there were targets of the s&p 500 at the end of the year and looking for pause or pullback, because you can't go up straight all the time. the markets go up and down, the truth. we talk about the taper. it means a return to the
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fundamentals, stocks, bonds, the market will react based on the fundamentals of the economics and not me on the fed is pumping in. what does it look like to you? >> looks like the economy is continuing to heal but no way escaped velocity. it's not validating prices already in the market. that's why there's a sense, if we get a correction, if prices become less artificial that will attract a considerable amount of cash still on the sideline. that's why people are saying you need a correction in order to continue the rally, as strange as that may sound. >> do you think we will see more of a pullback in stocks here? >> i think that's certainly a risk. remember what's been this day calls you.
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priced out. in the second quarter, luke at this, nearly two-thirds of homes were affordable for families making $62,000 a year. that's the median income. you can see how that affordability is falling. next, the labor market. ne nearly 5.2 million net jobs were created since the recession four years ago but look at what was lost? mostly middle wage jobs and jobs we're creating, mostly lower wage positions. it costs 2 frown,0$41,000 to ra child. and that cost has surged 23% adjusted for inflation including housing, food, clothing, health care, as well as toys and computers. those of you in the northeast will probably pay even more than that. out west, more than that average. americans in rural areas getting
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a little bit more of the break. the ceo of pimco, a company that manages nearly $2 trillion in assets, what's the biggest thing hold back americans from this recovery today? >> good jobs that pay good wages, number one. number two, the ability of people to restore their damaged credit, therefore they can borrow again for a home. i think, thirdly, the idea that a young person who even earns a college degree is having a tough time finding a job in their chosen field of study. the american dream has been wounded and we've got to rebuild it. >> mohammad, you know marked and you know the economy. i was watching these retailer earnings this week showing from store to store a paycheck to paycheck customer is under stress. walmart calling the environment challenging, sales at macy's decline ford the first time in four years interestingly enough blooming dales owned by macy's did fine.
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costco and gap had to cut their prices. why aren't americans enjoying low interest rates and high stock prices more? >> we're living, christine, in a t two-speed economy. on the one hand, there is a group of people, many people, who are worried about their jobs if they have jobs. they're not well paid jobs. they can't own their home. in addition, they don't feel that they have adequate providin provision and access of public service education and hale. that is heart attackly true for the long term unemployed, younger unemployed and particularly true for those below the poverty line. on the other hand, we have a group of people better off, they have done extremely well. why? they have access to financial assets. financial assets have been bolstered in an attempt to improve economic policy.
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the problem is this is not trickling down, not getting inclusive growth and not getting job creation. it is not an engineering problem, that is most frustrating, not an engineering problem a political problem has to do with incredible polarization in washington. >> so a washington problem and you think it would get better if they would get their act together. i'm worried about the jobs part-time jobs, low wage and public sector jobs. one person described this as a bartender economy. is that what it is supposed to look like? can we keep america strong and if we are the driver for the world are these the kind of jobs we're creating? >> no. >> that's not what a recovery should look like. we are capable of so much more. it's not just about the now and here, it's also about the fact that most americans feel, for the first time, that their kids generation will be worse off than this. two things that need to happen.
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one is at the macro level. washington needs to act on the three problems we have, insufficient demand, insufficient structure reforms, and we have to remove some debt issues. at the micro level we have to power and enable incredible talent. this is about retooling and retraining. >> mark, i know you really want to jump in there. last word. >> i think that one of the things, this is a long term trend. the loss of good paying jobs was accelerated by the recession but it began a long time ago with trade and our fiscal policies which in sent ed the transfer o good paying jobs abroad. the bills have now come and i the picture is not good. the nation needs an economic plan which restores manufacturing and puts a premium on good jobs. if the congress wanted to do something in the short run, raise the minimum wage, make a down payment on the idea that people who work need to earn a decent and living wage. there are political issues, but
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i think we need the public and private sectors to come together on a long term economic plan for the country. we have to do it because what we see now is that the recovery is less than even. it's leaving many many people behind. these are warning signs for the future of this nation. >> i think we will be hearing a lot more about quantity and quality in the job's market, what that will mean for working americans, paycheck to paycheck americans building the middle class. thank you for joining us. >> thanks. coming up, the u.s. makes up 5% of the world's population, but 25% of its prison population. what that means for our economy and your money next. it was here.
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crime pay, at least if you're in the prison business. the number of people locked up has quadrupled since 1980. critic critics point in the large number of drug offenders incarcerated. attorney general eric holder says he will ask prosecutors to tweak indictments that carry harsh mandatory prison sentences arguing the largest prison system may be doing more harm than good. >> today, a vicious cycle of poverty, criminality and incarceration trap as to many americans and weakens too many communities. many aspects of our criminal justice system may a exacerbate these problems rather than alleviate them. >> studies show black males are
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targeted more often and nevada sentences 20% longer than white males and proposed changes come from places you might least expect. >> i think you almost have to be blind to america and i realize we still have very very deep elements s that go all the way back to slavery and segregation and go all the way back to fundamental differences in neighborhoods and cultures. i think it would be very healthy for the country and congress to re-evaluate both the criminal justice part and also evaluate the whole way we dealt with prison and we basically created graduate schools for criminality in locking people up in ways that are increasing their inability to function in societ society. >> graduate schools for criminality. a recent study found juvenile incarceration leads letter to high school graduation rates and
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higher chances of adult incarceration down the road. ashleigh banfield and author of how i painted my way to freedom, media manager that advocates for the decreased criminality of drugs. >> you were paid $500 to deliver 4 1/2 ounces of cocaine. it's a crime, you don't deny that. did you have any idea you would spend more than a decade in prison for that crime? >> no, i didn't. it was an awakening. i walked into a living nightmare, made a first time non-violent drug sale. a bowling buddy asked me if i wanted to make a fast $500 delivering an envelope from mt. vernon to the bronx. at first i said no and i got desperate and when you get desperate you do stupid things. 20 cops came out of nowhere, arrested me. i did everything wrong and
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sentenced to 15 years to life under the rockefeller drug laws which mandates mandatory sentencing laws. >> that's what ache rick holder is wanting to reduce. it cost the taxpayers for incarceration, youth, $80,000. cost for tennessee school, $10,000. last year, there were more people incarcerated in this country than received bachelor's degree s. did you see any dissenters to eric holder's proposal? >> you would expect a co-corffny, but not inside the policy, how the policy has been changed. eric holder said stop writing in the amounts people are getting charged with. that way we can skirt the mandatory minimums. he didn't go to the legislative process to rewrite these policies. that's where a lot of dissension has come. this is a bipartisan thing. everybody knows we're in crisis
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and bursting at the seams with our prison. there are a lot of anthonys in prison lest any think there are dangerous drug offenders who will be released into the streets to attack our children, that's not what the policy is about either. you can't be violent, can't have used a weapon, can't of assaulted children or have connections to drug cartels or gangs. they're being specific about the people who will not. you would not apply in this case. you would be one of those people who would be spared those very long sentences. >> let's talk about what newt gingrich just said in that clip, that prisons are graduation schools for criminals and can't function in society. give us a view from the inside-out, how do prisons need to change to do more rehabilitation and less punishment. especially talking about non-violent drug offenders still have committed a crime, will have to face punishment. what do you do over those years
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in prisons. >> to be sentenced 15 years to life was unbelievable. when i went to prison i was lucky and acquired three college degrees and have a masters degree from a the logical seminary. it was a way for me to transcend the negative of imprisonment. education is one way to do it. have prisons, instead of strictly punitive punishment, make them rehabilitative sentences where people can find their realselves. prison is the most existential environment there is. what i mean about that, something mystical about spending 15 years in a 6x9 cage you discover who you are. if you have rehabilitative programs you can take advantage of them. >> one eloquent way of putting it. >> or you memphisistically. >> not what i would think about a 6x9 cell. the war on drugs has been about punishing and deterring. have we failed or succeeded? are we at a standstill?
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>> i think we failed in a lot of places. you are an exception to the rule, anthony. a lot of people don't get a degree, not high school or masters degree for sure and come out with alarming recidivism rates in this country. you can watch these programs on television that show gang related activity and segregation that exists as they are their own society. it's hard to get that past in congress, let's spend more money on people in prison. >> you look at the size of the population, your first job is the job that will propel you for the rest of your life for your economics. i cover money and family economics. that first step into a prison especially for young people, that's it. it's so so deadly. anthony, so nice to see you. ashleigh, talk to you very soon. it's been just about eight months since the tragedy and gun
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fixodent, and forget it. late last year the massacre in newtown, connecticut shocked everybody. there's been a new reaction in newtown you might not expect. poppy. >> this is pretty surprising to me. what we have seen in the months following the tragic shooting at sandy hook elementary school the number of pistol permits issued in newtown has actually risen significantly. if you look at connecticut as a whole, the number of background checks for people that want to buy guns rose 53% from the six months before the shooting to the six months after. >> i'm nancy. >> how you doing? pleased to meet you. >> reporter: she's grandmother about to become a first time gun owner. >> this way is easier. >> reporter: nancy elliott says the new gun laws passed in
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connecticut, among the toughest in and that this whole idea of controlling guns has not -- has come to my back door. in other words, there could be a time when i may never be able to get a firearm. >> reporter: ellis lived in newtown for 28 years. her desire to own a gun is part of a spike in the state. newtown vividly remembered for one of the worst gun massacres in u.s. history is on track this year to double the amount of pistol permits it issued last year. >> i'm concerned that it can get out of hand. nancy lanza had quite an arsenal i understand in her home. >> reporter: dave and monty frank are members of newtown action alliance pushing to curb gun violence. >> there's a perception that the government's going to come and grab all their guns or not allow them to purchase certain guns.
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>> reporter: ryan delph owns multiple guns and didn't want to show them on camera. you bought another gun after the shooting at sandy hook elementary. why? >> that was 100% driven by the legislation that i was anticipating being passed. it is my responsibility to take care of and protect my family. >> reporter: it is hard for him to understand grieving the death of his daughter lauren killed at sandy hook. >> i had my first dream with my daughter was in the dream that just about a week ago. i said, lauren is dead. how can she be there? she's dead. >> reporter: what do you think when you see these numbers? >> it's sad. it is really sad. there's no other words to say it. it makes me sad to think that people, they feel that they're protecting themselves but they're just adding to the problem. >> reporter: there was also a surge in gun sales in colorado following the aurora movie
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theater massacre and after the 2011 mass shooting in tucson, background checks for gun purchases in arizona spiked. while nancy ellis grieves for the victims -- >> my heart breaks for them. it truly does. >> reporter: for her, this is about protecting her rights. >> did the guns cause the tragedy? no. it is the person behind the gun that caused the tragedy. >> and here's something i think is really important to point out, christine. when you look at the number of guns, the number of americans that own guns in this country has been declining since the '70s but what we're seeing is more guns in the hands of future people. and that's a key people that two of the men in the piece talked to me about newtown action alliance. that's what concerns them. they're not anti-gun, per se. they're concerned about more and more guns, a stockpiling of guns in the hands of fewer people and as you saw they mentioned nancy
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lanza and that home with multiple guns. >> poppy, such an interesting story. thank you. >> you're welcome. up next, a major airline merger rejected. now a legal battle brewing. is the price for your next flight about to soar? [ male announcer ] research suggests cell health plays a key role throughout our lives. one a day men's 50+ is a complete multivitamin designed for men's health concerns as we age. with 7 antioxidants to support cell health. one a day men's 50+.
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you're grounded. that's the message of the justice department to american airlines and u.s. airways.
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proposed merger of two would create the world's biggest airline but the government says it's a bad deal for consumers. airlines have been merging since the late 1970s. there were 20 major airlines in the u.s. by 1990, there were just 12 and today there are just 7. the u.s. has seen three, count them, three huge merge earls in five years to keep airlines in the sky. you couldn't make money doing it alone. but the justice department says, that's not the case here. and if this merger goes through, those four airlines will control more than 80% of the u.s. air travel market. this is the chart that the airline industry wants you to see. it's the cost of flying. cost of flying has dropped over those 30 years. although prices ticked up a little bit in the last decade. but here's a chart they don't want you to see. in 2010, jet blue and american airlines, they made a deal giving jetblue slots at washington's reagan national airport. before landing there, u.s.
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airways charged more than $1,200 for a ticket to boston last minute. after jetblue arrived, u.s. airways dropped the price to less than $500 but if they merge, the new airline could end the agreement and the airline companies own executives say that reduced competition allowed them to raise fares and charge you more for things like checking your bag and changing your ticket. the u.s. airways president said, quote, consolidation has allowed the city to do things like ancillary revenues, that is a structural permanent change to the industry and one that's impossible to overstate the benefit from. when i hear the words ancillary revenues, i think about paying for snacks and headphones on domestic flights. give me 60 minutes on the clock. it's money time. move over america. china needs more fuel, set to become the biggest importer of
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oil this year. europe's long recession is officially over. the economy grew by 0.3% in the second quarter, the first growth since 2011. paula deen might be winning in court but not the empire. after admitting to using a racial slur, she lost the contracts with the food network, big named sponsors and her cookbook publisher. now that a judge tossed out racial bias claims, sponsors are still steering clear. only 74% of american women are in the workforce and trails behind other developed countries. will you still like the way you look without george zimmer? they have a first commercial without the i guarantee it guy. the company dropped zimmer this summer in a very public feud. another ad from jcpenney has moms up in arms. parents say it promotes bullying with a kid eating alone thanks to the clothes he's wearing.

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